Deborah Kahn

Deborah Kahn has spent 20 years working in the scientific information and publishing industries. She currently heads DK Associates, an independent consultancy which specialises in helping information providers understand the needs of their users, and to design and produce products which meet those needs. Recent work includes:

• co-authorship of a study for the British Library Policy Unit entitled The Scale of Future Publishing in Digital and Conventional Formats.
• creation of a strategic marketing plan for the chemical portfolio of a major international publisher.
• an international market research study to provide a better understanding of the corporate market for a well established life sciences database.
• a series of workshops in a large pharmaceutical company to define user requirements and the monitoring of user attitudes to subsequent
  developments to the in-house information systems.
• ongoing process development for the largest chemical internet community.
  
  Before establishing DK Associates, she worked for 10 years for the Thomson Corporation, most recently as Product Development Director of Derwent Information Ltd, and previously as Journals Publisher for Chapman & Hall. She has a Masters degree in Organisational Behaviour.